Abib inspections for 2007

Aviv thoughts 2007 in a PDF 3-24-2007

Abib Report, March 20th, 2007 in a PDF 3-20-2007

Abib Report, March 19th, 2007 in a PDF 3-19-2007

Abib Report, Part 1, March 18th, 2007 in a PDF 3-18-2007

Abib Report, Part 2, March 18th, 2007 in a PDF 3-18-2007

NOTE from Brian: March 17, 2007

Greatings from Israel from all the inspectors.
We must always remember the importance of actually inspecting the barley crop each year. What we think will happen prior to the inspections is just conjecture. We must always wait on God. To date we have found very young barley. Personally that has been a surprise to me. The beauty of that is God is God and does not recon things by what we think. We follow His lead and not the other way around. As always we need your prayers for such indevors that Gods will be done. Green Heads of barley (or in some cases wheat) is not the aviv of God. As most understand from the time of green head emergence it can take anywhere from 4-6 weeks to the point it can qualify to be aviv depending on the strain and the weather. Simple understandings but not for all.
Brian

Abib report, March 16th, 2007

There was cold and wet weather in Jerusalem and the Northern Negev today. Last night there were very heavy downpours. Today we checked many of our traditional locations in the Western Judean Hills and the Northern Negev. Not one location contained any barley remotely close to being aviv. All these fields were either in a state of aviv or within two weeks of it last year at this same time in March.

Much of the wild Hordeum Spontaneum and domestic Hordeum Vulgare were in the head emergence stage(s) through the flowering stage(s). We did find some locations which were in the milk stage (7 on Zadoks Chart) with some heads in early dough development. Even roadside barley was not aviv in 95% of all our stops.

With some of the following pictures, you will see examples of what we found. The one picture shows a head and some kernels taken from a roadside south of Sederot. The kernels are full and are in the soft dough stage. It is a variety of two-row barley which has a red pigment to some of the kernel shells. We have found this strain to be the earliest over the years. With this said, it and several other stocks growing along the roadside were the most mature. All of the wild oats were still green as well. The Northern Negev is the greenest I have ever seen in the six years of inspecting it.

Last year at this time, over 70% of the wheat fields in the Northern Negev had already been harvested at this same time in March. This year we did not see one field even close. We still need to inspect the area between Hebron and Be’er Sheva later in trip. We may do that on Sunday, but we are leaning toward inspecting the Jordan Valley up to Beit She’an. Our next report will be Sunday evening the 18th.

Tim VanHalteren, Paul Wilson, Richard Andrews, Zach & Angie Boettner, and Brian & Linda Convery

Picture 1 Barley in flowering stage, florets visable
Picture 2 Field of wild barley with non-domestic weeds in background
Picture 3 Participants in field of wild barley
Picture 4 One of more advanced kernels found barely leaving milk stage
Picture 5 Kernel filling out
Picture 6 Most advanced roadside barley, soft dough stage
Picture 7 Tare and barley found growing together
Picture 8 Most advanced field of wheat. Some awns turning color but kernel in very soft dough stage

Abib Report, March 16th, 2007 With Pictures Listed Above in a PDF 3-16-2007